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"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too."

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The New Rasputins
Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.
www.theatlantic.com
January 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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On optimism
Lessons from Venezuela
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December 26, 2024 at 12:40 AM
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Hilarious: “The researchers encouraged the struggling machines to persevere, feeding prompts such as “keep working” and “don’t be afraid to execute your code.””

Pathetic: “Despite the exhortations, no model scored above 2% on the test”

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‘Brutal’ math test stumps AI but not human experts
Benchmark shows humans can still top machines—but for how much longer?
www.science.org
December 7, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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We Are All Surrounded by Immense Wealth
Everybody used to be naked, all the time. Naked at birth, naked at death, naked while sitting around with people, naked while meeting strangers, naked while preparing and serving food. This condition ...
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December 4, 2024 at 4:20 AM
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The only remaining traces of our most ancient shared ancestor is in the genetic code of every creature alive today.
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All Life on Earth Today Descended From a Single Cell. Meet LUCA. | Quanta Magazine
The clearest picture yet of our “last universal common ancestor” suggests it was a relatively complex organism living 4.2 billion years ago, a time long considered too harsh for life to flourish.
www.quantamagazine.org
November 20, 2024 at 3:16 PM